San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-01-07
The Eminent Dead of 1880.

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For the LIGHT:
Paul Hayne. the South Carolina poet,
had good reason to be proud OF the his
torical name which he bore, one OF his
| ancestors having been n devoted Wing
In 1776 In our war for independence. and
his children have reason TO exult over
the fact, that the poet did nothing to
| tarnish time-honored name. Mr..
Beecher greatly moderated the poetic
ability Of Paul II. Hayne, who, while not
endowed with the first order OF poetic
genius, is entitled to occupy respect
able rank In the list OF American poets
and TO re regarded as the peer Of host
OF bepufied poets Of the north. Hayne
was forced TO battle against unpro-
pitious circumstances. War Is not pro-
pitious to the poetic flame any more
than IL Is to science. art or literature,
from the fact that it infames the minds,
heats the passions and arouses the pre-
judlces, OF men to such pitch as 10 con-
centrste their attention and thoughts on
one SUBJECTIVE war that Is In progress.
and whose Issue is doubtful. The result
OF the war was such Us to sweep away
the property OF Mr.. Hayne as well ne to
dampen his poetic fire. How could
poet, living In and.identitled with con-
quered country, whose soil was held by
the sword, and whose institutions were
PROSTATE in the dust, aftune his harp to
song and melody. Circumstances forced
him to hang bis harp upon the willows,
as the captive lsraelites did In Babylon,
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